Sausage-making machine.



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SAUSAGE MAKING MACHINE.

APPLIOATIDH FILED JAN. 27, 1909.

Patented Aug. 1, 1911.

KONRAD KATHER, OF VALLEJO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF T0 FRANK T. BRUGGEMAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SAUSAGE-MAKING MACHINE.

Application filed January 27, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, KONRAD KA'rHnu, a A.citizen of the United States, residing at Vallejo, in the county of Solano and State of California, have invented a new and useful Sausage-Making Machine, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in sausage making machines, and the object of my improvements are, first, to provide a continuously feeding machine in which by its construction the ingredients of the sau sage, the meat, the fat, the spices, and' the necessary amount of water are rubbed or kneaded together before entering the casings. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of the entire machine; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the entire machine in combination with a common rotary screw fed meat chopper; Fig. 3 is an end View of the machine.

y Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The cast iron tinned Ybarrel A, has a. cy-

lindrical slightly cone shaped body, open at the larger end and having a hole in the center' of the closed smaller end for the passage of the spindle n, of the feeder B. Near the smaller end the barrel A has a funnel shaped opening j, for the entrance of the meat and the water, and on the opposite side legs c, k, for securing the machine. At the larger end the barrel A, is provided with a screw thread.

The feeder B, consists of the screw part s, and the vconical rubbing part r, having almost the same diameter as the inside of barrel A, into which it enters. The feeder B, is provided at t-he screw end with the spindle n, that passes through the closed end of the barrel A, and receives the crank H, and the thumb-screw l that secures the crank H, Concentric with spindle yn, the

if feeder B, has onthe other end the spindle m.

,The bearing C, lits into recesses of the larger end of the barrel A, and receives .the spindle m. The metal stutter tube D, of Afunnel shape, fits over the open end of barrel A and the bearing C.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1911..

serial No, 474,621.

The ring E, screws over the barrel A and retains and secures the stufer tube D to the bearing (1. y i

The screw part s, of the feeder B takes the substance thrown into the opening j, of the barrel A up and feeds it into the conical part r, where it is thoroughly rubbed together and thence through the stutter tube `D into they casing of the sausage.

To apply this invention as an attachment dlrectly to a meat chopper t), as shown in Figs 2 the funnel shaped receiver y', and

legs ic, 7"., are omitted. The smaller end of barrel A, is also open and is provided with a threaded rim f, fitting over the threaded part of meat chopper O.

To transfer the revolving motion of the feed screw F of meat chopper O, by the crank H, to the feeder B of the sausage making machine, the screw end of the feeder1 B, is

lprovided with a square hole-into which the -steam or electrical power.

am aware that prior to my invention similar machines with feed screws have been made for chopping'meatonly, and also that meat choppers are in use with sausage stuifing attachments, l therefore do not claim uch combinations broadly but l claim:

A sausage making machine consisting'of a substantially cylindrical casing formed of two cylindrical sections. detachably connected together, a feeding hopper 'carried by' one of said sections, a meat feeding and disintegrating member in said latter section, a perforated cutter bed plate mounted within said casing at the junction of said sections, a cutter operating against said bed plate and operated by said meat feeding and disintegrating member, a conical meat mashing member having a smooth periphery in the other cylindrical section, means projecting through said bed plate for connecting said meat meshing member to said feed'- ng and dsintegrating member to permit the rotation of the former by the latter, a delivery spout carried by the outer end of said other cylindrical section and operating means connected to the feeding and ds' Witnesses:

GEO. F, SCHILD, D. (nrRUE'r'rNER.y 

